Specialist Logistics 1

Logistics Specialist

About Advanced Energy

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: AEIS), enables design breakthroughs and drives growth for leading semiconductors and industrial customers. Our precision power and control technologies, along with our applications know-how, inspire close partnerships and innovation in thin-film and industrial manufacturing. We are proud of our rich heritage, award-winning technologies, and we value the talents and contributions of all Advanced Energy's employees worldwide.

Role Summary:

Responsible for all import shipments and ensure on-time delivery to support production and plant requirements at an optimum service quality level availing the most competitive rate in the market

 Key Responsibilities:

Oversee the day to day import operations

1. Coordinate import shipments with forwarders at origin and destination; to ensure immediate uplift/loading into the first available and preferred carrier

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2. Closely coordinate with brokers at destination the urgency of shipment for seamless customs clearance paper-works processing to achieve the target material in-house date and time
3. Assertively suggests most logical and applicable ship-mode to buyers and vendors as internally coordinated with other team members particularly for highly critical shipments
4. Release pre-alert to Buyers, Planners and Receiving team on a daily basis for manpower allocations and production run scheduling

Shipment documentation processing and screening

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2. Ensure that all import documents required for the application and approval of import permit are compliant with all regulations prior to shipment arrival
3. Work closely with Purchasing and vendors to control/eliminate documentation issues and delivery delays due to use of incorrect consignee name, incorrect freight terms, incomplete documents from origin and wrong use of forwarder causing increase in freight-in

Compliance to company's safety target programs

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2. Participates actively in the regular review and update of Hazard Identification Risk Assessment and Control (HIRAC
3. Participate actively in the prevention of occurrence of Safety Incident and First Aid Cases
4. Reports near miss, unsafe acts, unsafe conditions, hazards including feedbacks during tool box meetings

Freight Control Programs

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2. Ensure that every shipment requests from Purchasing is in compliance with the Import Logistics Freight Guide, a decision tool for all buyers and their Managers in coming out with a most practical ship mode at a lesser freight cost
3. Support and consider the department's KPI on "Freight-In% to MR$" in coming out with logistics proposal on all shipment executions

Service Providers Monthly Scorecard Rating/Updating

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2. Records the OTD or Cycle Time Performance of each nominated forwarder

Shipment Discrepancy and Bad Order Handling

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2. Investigate and resolve receiving discrepancies including short shipments and damaged goods
3. Document non-conformance and communicate with purchasing for the corrective actions from the supplier, sending of replacements or issuance of credit notes
4. Coordinate with Receving and IQC for inspection, reporting and disposition of affected items
5. Monitor and reconcile inventory transactions related to bad orders in coordination with receiving and inventory team
6. Facilitate the disposal of confirmed scrap and maintain complete records for traceability and audit readiness

Other Duties and Responsibilities

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2. Responsible in carrying out the company's and government agencies 'Record Retention' policies
3. Supports the direction to ensure that all import documents on file or archives are in compliance with the required retention period for audit and future use
4. Performs other tasks such as report generation, data analysis, or other import-related tasks as may be assigned

Qualifications

1. Education: Any 4 year course, preferably BS Customs Administration graduate

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2. Minimum Work Experience Required: at least 2 years of relevant experience in importation

Compensation

As part of our total rewards philosophy, we believe in offering and maintaining competitive compensation and benefits programs for our employees to attract and retain a talented, highly engaged workforce.  Our compensation programs are focused on equitable, fair pay practices including market-based base pay, an annual pay-for-performance incentive plan, we offer a strong benefits package in each of the countries in which we operate.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

Advanced Energy is committed to diversity in its workforce including Equal Employment Opportunity for Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities.

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